Famous quotes containing the words eye and/or ointment:
“Freud’s eye was the microscope of potency.
By fortune, his gray ghost may meditate
The spirits of all the impotent dead, seen clear,
And quickly understand, without their flesh,
How truly they had not been what they were.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a foul odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 10:1.
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